A Nightmare on Elm Street

Depp

...a musician. Allison had her friend the actor Nicolas Cage arrange for Depp to audition with director Wes Craven, and Depp made his film debut as a teenager eaten by his own bed in A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). He divorced Allison the following year.

discussed in biography

...Thing (1982), based on the DC Comics character, was Craven’s first big-budget picture, but it fared poorly at the box office. In 1984 Craven had his breakout hit with A Nightmare on Elm Street, which he wrote and directed. It spun off multiple sequels, television series, and a 2010 remake. Like several of his other films, A Nightmare on...